Technological Aspect of Processing Maps for the AA2099 Alloy

Abstract

Results of an experimental and modelling study of forming processes in the AA2099 Al–Cu–Li alloy, for a wide range of temperatures, strains and strain rates, are presented. The analyses are based on tensile testing at 20 °C at a strain rate of 0.02 s−1 and uniaxial compression testing in the temperature range 400–550 °C at strain rates ranging from 0.001 to 100 s−1, for constant values of true strain of 0.5 and 0.9. The stability of plastic deformation and its relationship with a sensitivity of stress to strain rate are considered. The power dissipation efficiency coefficient, η(%), and the flow instability parameter, ξ ≤ 0, were determined. The complex processing maps for hot working were determined and quantified, including process frames for basic forging processes: conventional forging and for near-superplastic and isothermal conditions. A significant aspect is the convergence of power dissipation when passing through the 500 °C peak. Deformation, temperature and strain-rate-dependent microstructures at 500 °C for strain rates of 0.1, 1, 10 and 100 s−1 are described and analysed for the conventional die forging process frame, corresponding to 465–523 °C and strain rates of 50–100 s−1.